Word: khaki
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...morning of the attack, we were divided into two groups. I was in the second group. I put on my best uniform, my flying uniform, the khaki-colored one. I prayed at a wooden replica of a Shinto shrine. I bowed once. I didn't ask for much. I said simply: "I am going...
...last time Fanny Sobero saw her husband Guillermo, it was late afternoon on May 23 at their suburban home in the chaparral-covered hills of Corona, California. Kids were shooting hoops in the fading light, and Sobero, in khaki shorts and a T shirt, was out in the driveway, slinging a yellow backpack into his Toyota pickup. Fanny thought her husband was heading up to Lake Havasu in Arizona to do some fishing and celebrate his 40th birthday, but she wasn't sure. She and Sobero didn't speak to each other much, unless it was about their impending divorce...
...last October to make the berets part of the uniform enraged the elite Army Rangers, who were suddenly losing their distinctive symbol. After much debate, the Rangers agreed to switch to tan berets, which they say are reminiscent of the D-Day beaches, sand in the Persian Gulf and khaki uniforms worn in Vietnam and Korea...
...comings and goings of Nepal's huffy Crown Prince Dipendra, 29, would turn out to be the prelude to a dynastic catastrophe. When the Crown Prince and his cousin Prince Paras, 27, arrived at the palace for the royal family's regular Friday dinner, they were dressed casually in khaki slacks and polo shirts and had already had a few drinks. The two were notorious prowlers of the Kathmandu night-life circuit, regulars at the X-Zone nightclub and the Bakery Cafe, where they were at the center of a swirl of hip kids and young adults whose preferred mode...
...Though the living wage figure itself is subjectively, and somewhat arbitrarily, calculated, PSLM? dogged push this spring for a Harvard wage floor of $10.25 an hour forces the suits, the union t-shirts and the khaki-clad undergraduates to hammer out a compromise from the economic implications of a wage floor and the ideological arguments surrounding the concept of a living wage...